Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh hospital staff strike for 48 hours over plans to outsource their jobs to wholly owned private company
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UNISON urges government to scrap damaging NHS competition rules
Ministers should scrap the damaging competition rules that force the NHS to sell off its services to private firms.
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Pay justice fight
Thousands of low-paid health staff are not eligible for wages rises under an impending NHS pay deal because their work has been outsourced. About 1,600 Barts Health workers, including porters,…Read more…
UNISON responds to NAO report on Capita and NHS England
UNISON highlighted the huge risks in these ambitious plans from the outset.
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Capita failure
“Way below standard” NHS services provided by outsourcing firm Capita to 39,000 GPs, dentists, opticians and pharmacists “potentially put patients at risk of serious harm”, the National Audit Office…Read more…
Keep jobs public call
NHS staff employed by Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are set to take strike action over plans to move their jobs to a subsidiary company WWL Solutions Limited, Unite, announced…Read more…
Operating theatre staff celebrated with first national awareness day
An awareness day highlighting the contribution of operating department practitioners (ODPs) to patient care will take place on Monday (14 May), UNISON has announced. The first National ODP’s Day will…Read more…
UNISON comment on NHS staff handing patients’ data to the Home Office
Health staff will be relieved to know they no longer have to act as immigration officers on the wards.
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Wigan hospital staff vote for strike over outsourcing plans
NHS trust’s plans to move jobs and workers to its own private company sees 89% vote for strike – in a 79% turn-out
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‘Wolf in sheep’s clothing’
Unite warned that a plan by East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust to outsource 250 direct employees and transfer 850 Serco staff into a new wholly owned subsidiary company, was a ‘wolf in…Read more…
‘Pay justice’
Low paid NHS workers employed by Serco at Barts NHS Trust staged a protest at the Trust’s board meeting today (May 9) to demand that Barts and Serco fund a pay rise which mirrors the pay deal being…Read more…
‘New pay dawn’
NHS health workers, members of Unite, started voting on Monday (April 30) on the three year pay deal that was unveiled in March. Unite’s national health committee, which represents the union’s…Read more…
‘Second class care’
An online GP service that is attracting younger patients in London and reducing funding for surgeries in the capital to treat those who are older and less healthy “threatens the very survival of the…Read more…
‘Not on board’
Workers at three Lancashire hospitals have begun balloting for strike action in a dispute over plans to outsource their jobs to a wholly owned subsidiary company. Unite members, who are…Read more…
EU nurse ‘exodus’
The Tories’ use of EU nationals as “bargaining chips” in the Brexit negotiations caused 10 per cent of European NHS nurses to resign last year, meaning attempts to reverse nursing staff…Read more…
Nurse and midwife numbers dragged down by Brexit effect
Brexit has made many European nationals feel decidedly unwelcome
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‘Financially squeezed’
About 3,000 NHS workers at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn are facing swingeing hikes to their car parking charges that threaten to wipe out the proposed NHS pay rise. Unite said…Read more…
Overworked healthcare assistants not given proper training or supervision
Healthcare assistants (HCAs) are being expected to do the work of nurses without adequate training or proper supervision, according to survey results published today (Wednesday) by UNISON. Nearly two…Read more…
‘The NHS has always been there’
The first person born in the NHS says that it’s too easy to take the service for granted
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Steep rise in reported assaults against NHS staff, says UNISON
Last year in England physical assaults on NHS staff rose by nearly 10% compared to 2015/16, according to new figures published today (Tuesday) by UNISON and HSJ. The figures were obtained following a…Read more…